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Lockheed Martin deployed its maritime, canister-launched Vector Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the Marlin MK2 unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) during a US Navy exercise in August, the company announced on 28 September. Lockheed Martin successfully launched Vector Hawk (left), a small UAV, on command from the Marlin MK2 UUV (right), during a cross-domain C2 event hosted by the USN. (Lockheed Martin) This year's Annual Navy Technology Exercise (ANTX) called for demonstrations of cross-domain command and control (C2), Doug Prince, business development director for unmanned underwater systems at Lockheed Martin, told IHS Jane's . In response to a request for information six months earlier, the company put together the demonstration of communication between the Marlin, the Vector Hawk, and the Submaran unmanned surface vehicle (USV) developed by Ocean Aero.